About the Artwork
The Wedding
ca. 1900
Gari Melchers
1860-1932
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 45 × 34 inches (114.3 × 86.4 cm) Framed: 63 1/4 × 52 1/8 × 6 1/4 inches (160.7 × 132.4 × 15.9 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of Edward Chandler Walker
06.4
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Markings
Signed, lower left center: Gari Melchers
Provenance
Gari Melchers
by 1906, Edward Chandler Walker
1906-present, gift to the Detroit Museum of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Exhibition of Paintings by Michigan Artists. Exh. cat., Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1905, no. 39.
Bulletin of the DMA 10 (April 1906): p. 5.
Hoeber, Arthur. “Gari Melchers.” International Studio 31, 121-124 (1907): p. 18 (ill.).
Handbook of Paintings in the Collection of the Detroit Museum of Art—Supplement. 1907, p. 18.
Exhibition of Oriental and American Art. Exh. cat., Alumni Memorial Hall, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, 1910, no. 115 (ill.).
Bulletin of the DMA 7, 2 (1913): p. 31.
Earle, Helen L. Biographical Sketches of American Artists, 3rd ed. East Lansing, 1916, p. 164.
Paintings by Gari Melchers. Exh. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1918, no. 21.
Academic Notes. Buffalo, 1923, p. 30.
Valentiner, William R. and Clyde H. Burroughs. A Guide to the Collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts of the City of Detroit. 1927, p. 80.
Exhibition of Paintings by Gari Melchers. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1927, p. 3.
Lewis-Hind, Henriette. Gari Melchers, Painter. New York, 1928 (pl. 36).
Exhibition of a Retrospective Collection of Paintings Representative of the Life Work of Gari Melchers, N.A. Exh. cat., Buffalo Fine Arts Academy. Buffalo, NY, 1930, p. 5.
American Painting. Exh. cat., University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, 1940, no. 33.
Victoriana: An Exhibition of the Arts of the Victorian Era in America. Exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, 1960, p. 193, no. 200 (ill.).
Brunk, Thomas W. “A Note on Charles Lang Freer.” Bulletin of the DIA 59, 1 (Spring 1981): pp. 19-20 (ill.).
Bulletin of the DIA 59, 1 (1981): pp. 17-21 (ill.).
Dreiss, Joseph G. Gari Melchers: His Work in the Belmont Collection. Charlottesville, VA, 1984, pp. 17, 73 (ill.).
Gari Melchers: A Retrospective Exhibition. Exh. cat., St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts. St. Petersberg, 1990, no. 12.
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Gari Melchers, The Wedding, ca. 1900, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Edward Chandler Walker, 06.4.
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